Making a Pallet shed

[WiseOwl]

Found this today.

http://www.oklahomahistory.net/palletshed.html

Looks pretty easy and can be done in all honesty for cheaper than the $500 this guy spent. I have saved that page for latter use when I get my new house next year. Perfect for yard tools and mowers. And easy to make a firewood shed also.

Any of you guys and gals ever did anything like this?

[Grand58742]

I make a lot of things from old pallets. You might be surprised at what can be made from those things and it's my intention to put up an "urban lumberjacking" video of some of the things one can make. Have the camera (thank you Mister Spock), just finding the time to get it done now.

Problem you run into is getting pristine pallets like this guy used. Those are in relatively awesome shape, almost looking brand new, and you have to be picky about which ones you find as many or most are beat up and heavily used. A lot have forklift scars on the 2x4 portions or are cracked.

But either way, the wood on them is typically decent grade and when you get it put together right, tends to last. I attached a picture of a stool that can be made out of old pallets that we made in Iraq. Provided we used different materials for this particular "model" the basis for the design came from when we were short on lumber and used what we had available.

Best get on my video making skills lol

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I have built the start of cities in the military with pallets. When we drop in you have nothing so nothing is trash and nothing is wasted. Ammo can lids are sidewalks, pallets are shower stall bases for drainage, wood is wood and can build things like Grands stool above. The plastic wrapping on pallets is water barrier for foxhole roofs, them aluminum pallets when the flyboys aint lookin are a preimium, look closely at zip ties because some are the reusable kind, even the nails in pallets can be reused if careful and ammo crates have some decent thinner wood too. When we packed the backs of our trucks everything is encased in plywood and those sheets are like gold. When you railhead trucks the windsheilds must be wrapped usually in cardboard BUT if the railmaster doesnt mind we did them in wood so we had even more when we arrived. You are only limited by your mind and way of thinking, Soldiers and inmates are 2 of the most resourceful types there are.

[Grand58742]

Ammo can lids are sidewalks, pallets are shower stall bases for drainage, wood is wood and can build things like Grands stool above. The plastic wrapping on pallets is water barrier for foxhole roofs, them aluminum pallets when the flyboys aint lookin are a premium,...

And when the USAF finally arrives, we pave those ammo cans over, put up the pool where the pallet shower stalls first stood and we reclaim our 463L pallets (that's the $1700 piece of equipment you acquired) so they can be used to bring in the beach volleyball sets and hot tub filters.

All this must be done before the Ritz-Carlton goes up. :D

I'll be thinking of some minor items to "toss" together over the next couple of weeks and put a video together.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

And when the USAF finally arrives, we pave those ammo cans over, put up the pool where the pallet shower stalls first stood and we reclaim our 463L pallets (that's the $1700 piece of equipment you acquired) so they can be used to bring in the beach volleyball sets and hot tub filters.All this must be done before the Ritz-Carlton goes up. :D I'll be thinking of some minor items to "toss" together over the next couple of weeks and put a video together.

LOL yep he's a flyboy alright! Puts up a pool and red carpet but denies a pore ole cold, hungry, dirty and deprived Soldier a piece of metal, straight haters them flyboys are :)
It was a simple unhandreciepted lateral transfer of equipment, ya know kinda robinhoodish, takin from the wealthy and giving to the poor
LOL if your POd bout that then your really gonna be mad bout..........

[Grand58742]

I can neither confirm nor deny utilizing said 463L pallets for other purposes besides cargo myself lol

But Matt is right, when you have nothing, nothing is garbage. While in Iraq, we reused a lot of things that would have easily ended up in the garbage here. Broken pallets? Walkways with the usable pieces, stools, other minor woodworking items. Old 10 penny nails? Bent correctly can be a modified tire punch (provided they don't work great, but use what you can and all). Old wire? Cordage (WD-1 wire works great in that regard). Hesco barrier wire? (provided they aren't that common in the States, but they do get used in floods and FEMA has a bunch). Makes great retaining walls when combined with rock. Steel cans? Intrusion devices. The list can go on.

Why do I mention this? Because in the PAW, we will have exactly nothing. Well, basically whatever is left over. You learn to use what's at your disposal and find new uses for all sorts of items.

Even accountable 463L pallets lol

[Matt In Oklahoma]

MREs
A case of MREs has the slide off outer box that is a heavy cardboard. It is strong enough to sit on and do #2. They also make good floors n interior sidewalks or just a place to put your boots by your cot when you start the city. The spoon is wrapped in plastic. That plastic slides over the barrel of your rifle to protect it from rain n ice. Coffee creamer is used to flare up fire. All left over ingrediants are mixed together and consumed no matter the taste. Cardboard from the entrees and paper from TP is burned when allowed to heat the next meal. I've also used the exhaust pipe on the truck to heat my meal. Its usually flat or you can balance the canteen cup near the motor. The meal plastic bag can be used as a buffer between metal to metal contacts to eliminate any equipment rattles or patch holes in tents with glue because its thick and pliable. The oil from the unmixed cheese n peanut butter has been rubbed on my sidearm to help with rust after runnin out of breakfree. It had a side effect of drawing bugs so cold weather only ok.

Used tin can lids to make rat traps more deadly for bigger things like cats by bending the lid and attaching it to the end that pushes down and then running finish nails thru the bottom.

The can are used as cigarette but cans, bowls for gormet mre cooking, rattle alarms with old batteries in the absence of gravel, crinkle alarms, lift stand to get the wood of the ground so it dont rot to fast in case the air force is slow with the paving job because of holidays n such LOL

Used the collected links from machine guns as gravel to make a front porch area so that didnt hold water.

One built up area i was in diverted water to the crops from us and stated it would happen everyday for months so the next day I scored a rubbermaid large 30+ gallon trashcan with lid, filled it with water, set in the sun, taped it down with my name and that evening I took a warm water bath.

We've even carried pallets as ladders for window breach and run brush thru them to make camo walls to hide emplacements, OPs/LPs so you can put a roof over their heads so the freezing rain dont get to ya as bad

newspaper that I always asked my family to wrap things they sent in mail is read from to back by everyone in the platoon just for a tste of home and then used to clean the inner windows on trucks then burned

Cant even think of all that i've built or done with, it carries over to civy life and friends think i'm weird, which i am, but the world is what you make it

[WILL]

I wonder if that shed would pass a county inspection?

[tech]

...just make sure the termites are not invited...they love pallets.

[Matt In Oklahoma]

I wonder if that shed would pass a county inspection?

No such thing here in Oklahoma counties where it was built